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Caetano Veloso
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Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
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Caetano Veloso is a Brazilian writer, politician, singer, and guitarist. Born in Santo Amaro in 1942, he is the child of Dona Canô and the sibling of Maria Bethânia. He has four children, including Moreno Veloso. Veloso is right-handed and speaks Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, and English. His native language is Portuguese.
He began his work period in 1967 and performs using the guitar and voice. His musical genres include música popular brasileira, music of Brazil, alternative rock, art pop, mpb, and singer-songwriter styles. He is associated with tags such as Bossa Nova and tropicalia. His record labels include RCA Records, Philips Records, Mercury Records, and Universal Music Group.
Veloso has received the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil), the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year, the Brazilian Music Awards, and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts. He is educated at the Federal University of Bahia. His notable works include Caixa preta, Narciso em férias, Coleção Caetano Veloso, Antropofagia, and A imagem do som de Caetano Veloso. He is described by the source UbuWeb.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Caixa preta
- Narciso em férias
- Coleção Caetano Veloso
- Antropofagia
- A imagem do som de Caetano Veloso
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Santo Amaro, Brazil
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (7 August 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He has remained a constant…
Known for
- Todo Mundo no Rio com Shakira — Self2026
- Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil — Self (archive footage)2025
- Ritas — Self (archive footage)2025
- Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo — Self2025
- Chico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem — Self (archive footage)2025
- Fernando Collor: The Maharajah Hunter — Self (archive footage)2025
- Cazuza Além da Música — Self2025
- A Última Vanguarda — Self2024
- Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes — Narrator2024
- Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos — Self2024
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1942
Discography
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,118,296
- Total plays
- 49,523,737
Tags
Caetano Emanoel Viana Teles Veloso (born August 7, 1942 in Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil), professionally known as Caetano Veloso, is a singer, composer, musician, producer, arranger, writer and political activist, being one of the most popular and influential Brazilian MPB artists of all time. With a career that exceeds five decades, Caetano has built a musical work marked by renewal and widely considered to possess great intellectual and poetic value. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Caetano+Ve
Key facts
- Born
- Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , ( 1942-08-07 ) 7 August 1942 (age 83) , Santo Amaro, Bahia , Brazil
- Occupations
- Singer-songwriter writer political activist
- Years active
- 1961–present
- Spouse
- Andrea Gadelha ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1983 ) Paula Lavigne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2004 )
- Children
- 4; including Moreno
- Mother
- Dona Canô
- Relatives
- Maria Bethânia (sister)
- Genres
- MPB samba bossa nova tropicália folk rock
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Labels
- RCA Victor Universal Music
- Website
- caetanoveloso .com .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Santo Amaro
- Child
- Moreno Veloso
- Mother
- Dona Canô
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Federal University of Bahia
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Genre
- music of Brazil
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Universal Music Group
- Official website
- www.caetanoveloso.com.br
- Image
- Caetano Veloso (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 4
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- Commons category
- Caetano Veloso
- date of birth
- 1942-08-07
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- social media followers
- 317000
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- handedness
- right-handedness
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso ( Brazilian Portuguese: [kajˈtɐnu emɐnuˈɛw viˈɐnɐ ˈtɛliz veˈlozu]; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicália, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nineteen Brazilian Music Awards, nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On 14 November 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
Veloso was one of seven children born into the family of José Telles Veloso (commonly known as Seu Zeca), a government official, and Claudionor Viana Telles Veloso (known as Dona Canô). He was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purificação, in Bahia, a state in northeastern Brazil, but moved to Salvador, the state capital, as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after that, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the originators of Tropicália with several like-minded musicians and artists—including his sister Maria Bethânia—in the same period. However, the Brazilian military dictatorship viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician Gilberto Gil, in 1969. The two eventually were exiled from Brazil and went to London where they lived for two years. In 1972, Veloso moved back to his home country and once again began recording and performing. He later became popular outside Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s.
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